RFC 2288 (rfc2288) - Page 1 of 10
Using Existing Bibliographic Identifiers as Uniform Resource Names
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Network Working Group C. Lynch
Request for Comments: 2288 Coalition for Networked Information
Category: Informational C. Preston
Preston & Lynch
R. Daniel
Los Alamos National Laboratory
February 1998
Using Existing Bibliographic Identifiers
as
Uniform Resource Names
Status of this Memo
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not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
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Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
A system for Uniform Resource Names (URNs) must be capable of
supporting identifiers from existing widely-used naming systems.
This document discusses how three major bibliographic identifiers
(the ISBN, ISSN and SICI) can be supported within the URN framework
and the currently proposed syntax for URNs.
1. Introduction
The ongoing work of several IETF working groups, most recently in the
Uniform Resource Names working group, has culminated the development
of a syntax for Uniform Resource Names (URNs). The functional
requirements and overall framework for Uniform Resource Names are
specified in RFC 1737 [Sollins & Masinter] and the specification for
the URN syntax is RFC 2141 [Moats].
As part of the validation process for the development of URNs the
IETF working group has agreed that it is important to demonstrate
that the current URN syntax proposal can accommodate existing
identifiers from well established namespaces. One such
infrastructure for assigning and managing names comes from the
bibliographic community. Bibliographic identifiers function as names
for objects that exist both in print and, increasingly, in electronic
formats. This memo demonstrates the feasibility of supporting three
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